Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1835

Jan 26 Maria II of Portugal marries Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg

Jun 17 Soldier and politician Jefferson Davis (27) weds Sarah Knox Taylor (21) in Louisville, Kentucky

Jul 8 British Earl of Lovelace, William King (30) weds British mathematician Ada Byron (19), later known as Ada Lovelace, until her death in 1852

Sep 14 American leading transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson (33) marries 2nd wife Lydia (Lidian) Jackson in Plymouth, Massachusetts.